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The Detroit school district is shutting off drinking water to all of its schools after test results found elevated levels of lead or copper in 16 out of 24 schools that were recently tested. Officials point to the district's infrastructure as the problem. Read more>>
While there is strong evidence that the arts contribute to a complete education, many administrators instead allocate resources to college and career readiness programs. Workable solutions to save music programs are hard to come by. Read more>>
With Massachusetts in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave, at least 20 school districts have issued early dismissals or class cancellations, some even on the first day of classes. Read more>>
A mass email sent out to more than 17,000 Baltimore County school system employees told them not to get rid any documents, paper or electronic media. The directive has left some of them asking, "Why?" Read more>>
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Chicago Public Schools students go back to class next week--but the district still hasn’t completed background checks for thousands of its employees. Some teachers who resubmitted their fingerprints say they still weren’t cleared until this week. Others are now facing disciplinary hearings. Read more>>
The Virginia city plans to spend the next two years ensuring that every public and middle school is equipped to provide a quality, full-service extracurricular program that will open the door for more than 1,000 students to receive supervised care, recreation and help with homework. Read more>>
The New Jersey city's school board is voting to hire a law firm to challenge the state's new school funding law. The law slashes state aid to the 29,000-student school district over time by $175 million, an amount that represents nearly 30 percent of its total 2018-19 budget. Read more>>
Getting parents engaged with school is often a big challenge, which is why so many schools are trying to move beyond traditional models of parent engagement. Some are offering on-site wraparound services, English language classes and parenting seminars. And home visits go a long way to build trust between teachers and families. Read more>>
As media narratives and gun control debates rage on, it appears the debate’s landscape is shifting in the wake of recent school shootings. Out of that debate, come local organizations that are actually doing something to solve the school shooting problem. Read more>>
The overall tenor of the nation’s sociopolitical landscape is tense at best, and that tension will surely find its way into classrooms and campuses. The challenge for students and teachers this year will be to moderate that tension with civil discussion, compassion and open minds. Read more>>
Chagrin Falls Exempted Village Schools is using Kids InfoBits from Gale, a Cengage company, to design lesson plans that focus on developing students’ research and critical thinking skills. Read more>>
New Dimension Media’s classroom video streaming service, CCC! Streaming Media, has added over 1,300 new videos for the current school year. The new videos include K12 titles in science, social studies, math, English/language arts, health and guidance, and foreign language instruction. Read more>>
IXL Learning released its iPhone app. IXL for iPhone provides comprehensive math and language arts curriculum for pre-K through 12th grade, with over 5,700 skills that students can access. Read more>>
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Senators added language to the pending U.S. Education Department spending bill that would require the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office to study the state of America’s outdated school facilities for the first time since 1995. Read more>>
A state contractors association is celebrating a University of Kentucky business school study that shows repeal of prevailing wage for public construction projects has cut school construction costs during its first two years in effect. The researchers caution that they worked with limited data during these years. Read more>>
Every voter in Rhode Island will be asked this November if they want to allow the state to borrow $250 million to assist with infrastructure improvements in schools across the state. But voters in eight communities will see a second school bond question to fix up their crumbling buildings. Read more>>
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